They built a variety of farm and agricultural implements.
If one is looking for the company 'International Harvester Company', earlier known by the name 'McCormick Harvesting Machine Company', it was founded in 1902 in Canton, Illinois.
an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.
He invented the reaper, a machine for harvesting crops.
International Harvester (IH) was founded in 1847 as the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago. The first IH tractor was released in 1926.
The International Harvester company came about in 1902 when the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company merged with 4 other companies. I believe the first International truck came into production in 1907.
It was the first successful grain harvesting machine. It was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1843, which would later become part of IH.
Cyrus McCormick was very important to American history, He invented a machine called the harvesting (mechanical) reaper in 1831. It made harvesting wheat easier and faster, making wheat industry soar.
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Cyrus did have some jobs. He worked at the McCormick Harvesting Company and he also worked on the place that he invented the mechanical reaper.
It cut wheat five times faster than a farmer could by hand and it was pulled by horses.
Robert Hall McCormick has written: 'The life and works of Robert McCormick including his invention of the reaper' -- subject(s): Harvesting machinery
The history of mechanical harvesting itself dates back to Cyrus McCormick's marketing of the mechanical reaper in the early 1840s.